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Add MS 19633
- Record Id:
- 032-002096281
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002096281
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000041.0x000202
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100162917952.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 19633
- Title:
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Esther Inglis, calligraphic copy of Les Quatrains de Guy Du Faur, Siegneur de Pibrac
- Scope & Content:
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Quatrains by Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (1529-84), first published in 1576. An autograph calligraphic copy by Esther Inglis (1570/71–1624), calligrapher. Given to Prince Charles, later King Charles I, as a New Year’s gift in January 1614/1615. With the Prince’s arms (f. 1v) and a self-portrait of Inglis (f. 3r). French.
f. 1r Title page: ‘Les Quatrains de Guy de Faur Sieur de Pybrac ecrits par Esther Inglis ce Premier Jour de l’an 1615’. Illustrated border, colour.
f. 1v Coat of arms of Prince Charles. Colour.
f. 2r-2v Dedication: ‘A tres haut et tres excellent prince, Charles, Prince de la Grande Bretagne’. Within an oval wreath, colour.
f. 3r Self-portrait of Esther Inglis, within an oval wreath, colour. With a motto: ‘De l’eternel le bien, De moi le mal ou rien’.
ff. 4r-67r ‘Les Quatrains de Pybrac’. 126 quatrains, on rectos only.
f. 68r Motto: ‘Durum patientia frango’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002096281
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002096281
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100162917952.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- French
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1615
- End Date:
- 1615
- Date Range:
- 1615
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to consult this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 42 x 64 mm.
Foliation: ff. v + 68.
Binding: Original maroon velvet embroidered with silver thread and green and yellow silk. Foliage surrounds a central medallion containing a silver tree. Stubs of pink ties. (Scott-Elliot and Yeo). With a case.
Script: Calligraphic roman hand of Esther Inglis.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
John Wade: former owner.
Acquired by the British Museum 31 August 1853.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1848-1853 (London: British Museum, 1868), p. 260.
‘Add MS 19633’, Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700, ed. Peter Beal, online: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-additional-18000.html [accessed 29 March 2019].
S. Frye, ‘Materializing Authorship in Esther Inglis’s Books’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 32 (2002), 469-91.
D. J. Jackson, Esther Inglis, calligrapher (New York: Spiral Press, 1937).
D. Laing, ‘Notes relating to Mrs Esther (Langlois or) Inglis, the Celebrated Calligraphist, with an Enumeration of Manuscript Volumes Written by her between the years 1586 and 1624’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 6 (1868), 284-309.
A. H. Scott-Elliot and E. Yeo, ‘Calligraphic manuscripts of Esther Inglis’, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 84 (1990), 11-86.
A. Tjan-Bakker, ‘Dame Flora’s blossoms: Esther Inglis’s flower-illustrated manuscripts’, in P. Beal and M. J. M. Ezell, eds. English Manuscript Studies 9 (London: British Library, 2000), pp. 49-72.
R. Williams, ‘A moon to their sun’, Fine Print, 11/2 (1985), 88-98.
G. Ziegler, ‘“More than feminine boldness”: the gift books of Esther Inglis’, in M. E. Burke, J. Donawerth, K. Nelson and L. L. Dove, eds. Women, Writing and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor And Stuart Britain (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2000), pp. 19-37.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)